Category: #TOLC

PLNs

I came across this thought by @tomwhitby thanks to an Aaron Davis blogpost. I found something comforting it that, possibly due to not really having a title these days…
Badge Taxonomy V0.2

This is version two of the Badge Taxonomy – the purpose of which is not to classify rogue badges – but to understand how badges were being used, and help think through badging solutions.
3DCV

I really liked this idea from the Education Design Lab blog post Are Badges College Ready?. What would a 3D CV look like? What might elevate one achievement over another? Open Badges provide the underlying mechanism, but the value of a badge depends on multiple factors.
Planning Buckets for Scope

I created this image to go with Doug Belshaw’s blogpost on “Setting an Agile School Rhythm” …
Assessment System Design

How do you design an Assessment System? Patrick Craven from City & Guilds says that credibility is formed of three key aspects: Validity, Reliability and Viability…
Stubborn Boxes…

Richard Culatta, Director of EdTech for the US Dept of Education concluded his talk at the Education Reform Summit with this thought. He talked about the boxes in your loft – those from two house move’s ago – and asked this question. I really liked the metaphor. I have to point out that my loft…
Invest in Teachers

I really enjoyed listening to Andreas Schleicher, Director of Education at the OECD. I worry about how the stats that OECD produce can become canon fodder for politicians – but Andreas speaks very well on the conclusions that can be drawn from the data, and those that can’t. He spoke about how different countries choose…
Learning Positioning System

I really enjoyed listening to Richard Culatta, Director of EdTech for the US Dept of Education. He asked this great question – so I had to turn it into an image…
The definition of innovation…

Another image from Richard Culatta, Director of EdTech for the US Dept of Education. He was talking about Impact and Scale of emerging edTech and the need to define Innovation in terms of Scale and Impact. This makes a lot of sense to me…
Core Academic Subjects

Nick Gibb MP used the metaphor of primary colours when referring to core academic subjects. However in my experience, core academic subjects are not mixed. As a result, binary decisions are made about a students abilities, talents, and aptitude. And what is defined as core? I suggested Art, Music and Computing…
TechBac

I really enjoy trying to find visual metaphors for abstract concepts. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, its a bridge of course – to a profession. TechBac…
#OB101

Need to know more about OpenBadges? Check out #OB101…